Oculus Rift Teardown

Teardown

Let's face it, the year is 2013. Where are our flying cars? Why isn't deepspace travel a thing yet? Why hasn't virtual reality become, well, reality? The Oculus Rift seeks to fill that lack of virtual reality in our lives. Still in its early developmental stage, the Oculus Rift promises to deliver VR gaming to the yearning public. Join us as we take a peek inside the Oculus Rift and its hardware.

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For us, this death comes in the form of Team Fortress 2, one of the compatible games for the Rift, or so says its online dating profile.

One of the most innovative technologies brought about by the Rift is its head tracking capability. Accomplished with a gyroscope, accelerometer, and magnetometer, the Rift allows for 3 degrees of freedom so you can look around the virtual world without having to move your entire virtual body.

Check it out! Wearing the Rift allows one eye to see the image on the left, while the other eye sees the image on the right. As it turns out, the 3D effect of the Rift is not actually magic, but science!

If you look closely, you can see that the left-hand image is framed slightly to the right, and vice versa. Our brains—fantastic computers that they are—note the disparities between the images in each eye, calculate the angles and dimensions, and merge them into a single image with perceptible depth.

A USB2.0 adapter would not be suitable for fast-action video. I wouldn't count on the other options, either. You can find cheaper adapters than the one I pointed out, which was just the first I happened to come across. Another example is: http://www.ambery.com/2covivgatodv.html

Actually, looking at the specs for your notebook, you should have a DisplayPort, and you can get a cheap adapter from that to DVI-D.

I plug the wrong DC adapter into the controller and I burnt the Techcode TD1484A synchronous rectified step-down converter... I live in France and I cannot find this specific component. Does anyone know which similar component I could use instead?

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